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Show -190- that if the faculty wished to call a strike, he could almost guarantee that his committee would grant them the necessary sanctions. That was all he had to say. He would leave it to his brother, the attorney, to explain the significance of such an action? The attorney was introduced, and he told the meeting that if sanction for a strike was granted it meant that every union laborer in the city would recognize it as legitimate and refuse their services to the university. All deliveries to the campus vrould cease, there would be no pickup of garbage and other refuse, and maintenance-would be disrupted. For the most part, members of the union listened in a kind of awed silence, as though convinced, but a little surprised? that matters had progressed so far. Except for a small group of younger members in the front rows, there seemed little enthusiasm for a strike. When the lax-ryer sat down, and the meeting was thrown open for questions and comments from the floor, few questions x*ere asked, and only one rather inarticu-late appel was made in faor of an immediate action. The only A A applause came when one member attacked the Board of Trustees for appointing the Korean linguist president. The Professor spoke only once, and briefly. If the facu-lty was going to strike? he said? he thought now a very poo| time - just a week before the holidays. Why not ask for sanction now? then meet at the end of the vacation to decide what action to take. Not everyone agreed with what the Professor proposed, |